A string of long-awaited elections, as well as changing international dynamics, are reshaping the region, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights.

Washington no longer sees Kosovo as a strategic obligation but as an asset of diminishing value, to be leveraged in the service of US interests.

Police arrest Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk and four associates from pro-Russian Rybar channel suspected of trying to exert malicious influence on Montenegrin politics.

Controversial reform of local government dissolving smaller municipalities into larger units passes after stormy debate, with protesters demonstrating outside parliament.

After Kosovo’s political leaders put aside party quarrels to choose a new head of state at the last minute, experts predict a possible end to almost two years of non-stop political crisis.

As patients increasingly arrive at surgeries armed with diagnoses drawn from artificial intelligence chatbots, doctors fear their authority is being undermined - and that people may suffer as a result ...

Elsewhere, Hungary unveils wealth tax; Czech president faces backlash for going on holiday during elections; and a Soviet statue is removed in Prague, unveiled in Slovakia.

Overfull and stinking, the Ramici landfill near the northern Bosnian town of Banja Luka is a disaster waiting to happen, say local residents.

CRTA report warns of persistent 'electoral engineering' attempts by pro-government actors, including unequal media coverage, intimidation, hostility to independent election observers and offers of ...

While addressing widely-held concerns about pretrial detention measures, a bill to rewrite a big chunk of Albania’s Code of Criminal Procedure has been met with consternation among judges, prosecutors ...

Elections results show the three long-established ethnic parties continue to dominate Bosnia’s political scene; what’s less clear is how and when new governments will be formed.